I have an idea for a new thread...

[CAAD4]

This shows that sharks generally are not "out to get you". If that shark wanted to, it would have made a meal of any one of them. They clearly don't know it's there.

 

I was in Buffelsbaai one day in December 2017 visiting a mate, and while we were chatting away at the restaurant, a helicopter came flying over the beach, and banked sharply as it passed, and came back over the shore break where hundred or more people were swimming. The chopper hovered and a passenger was hanging out the side furiously waving and gesturing at something. The pilot came lower and lower and then some people started clearing the water.

 

Later that evening my mate sent me a video clip that he received from the chopper pilot who was an acquaintance of his. 4 x BIG GW sharks swimming between the bathers. No one got attacked.

 

But, ja, lives have been lost at Buffels due to shark attacks, so one never knows when it's your lucky day. Plett also has had its share of attacks.

Two mates of mine were attacked by GW sharks. One in Wilderness and the other at Groenvlei between Sedgefield and Buffelsbaai. Both survived, but cancer finally won out for one of them.

 

Closest I came to GW was at Outerpool in Mosselbay. I was out surfing with a few locals, and caught a wave. When I got back to the top, they were all gone. I caught another bomb, and then another. I could not believe my luck. That's when I noticed the screaming on the rocks, and saw the same blokes all shouting at me and pointing at something behind me. I turned and looked, and saw a dorsal fin cruising about 30 meters away from me, not at me, but in the general area I was in. It was a large fin. I paddled for the next wave, caught it and surfed it out. I always reckoned that the shark knows about me loooooong before I see it, and if it has not attacked me by the time I see it, it probably wont. This video kind of supports that theory.

Ja Ja all it takes is one wet fart, then it's all fun and games...

[porqui]

I feel it a lot more snorkeling off Buffels etc.I stick to the bamboo.F*ck the open water.

 

Had two VERY close encounters right inside the bamboes forest.

[Patchelicious]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HfdtljBKk&feature=emb_logo

Probably safer in the water with Bruce than having to deal with SAPS on the beach.

[Fruity]

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[Rob22]

Old numbers, COVID already over 100 a day and climbing 

 

 

 

 

[Fruity]

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[100Tours]

 

This may belong in more than one thread 

[Hairy]

@DJR

 

Go have some fun

 

 

[gummibear]

This dude just oozes charisma and even managers to make a cycling vest look cool

 

[MTBeer]

This dude just oozes charisma and even managers to make a cycling vest look cool

 

who's that? Evan?

[Shebeen]

who's that? Evan?

go wash that mouth out!

 

the clue is on the downtube

[MTBeer]

go wash that mouth out!

 

the clue is on the downtube

never heard of her.

[Hairy]

This dude just oozes charisma and even managers to make a cycling vest look cool

 

still ripped 

[DJR]

@DJR

 

Go have some fun

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If you know of someone in Cape Town who can still do this, please let me know.

 

Many years ago I had 3 journals  made by an old gentleman in Woodstock. They are about the size of an old family bible each and weigh a good few kilos each. He specialized in book binding for the legal profession who used to have their legal reports & things bound in leather to make it look impressive in the bookshelves in their offices. My last one is now full and the shop no longer exists. I can find nothing online either, except cheap & trashy book binding by places like Top copy for cheap student notes. I seriously considered taking my journal totally digital, because most of it is on the laptop anyway, but a real book that you can touch and smell has a warm heart that the computer simply lacks. So, before my time is completely over, I think I can fill up another proper hand made leather bound book, but I'm not sure I can make one totally from scratch and make it look neat as well as stay together forever!

Edited June 29, 2020 by DJR

[splat]

This dude just oozes charisma and even managers to make a cycling vest look cool

 

 

Sun's out, guns out 

[Hairy]

If you know of someone in Cape Town who can still do this, please let me know.

 

Many years ago I had 3 journals  made by an old gentleman in Woodstock. They are about the size of an old family bible each and weigh a good few kilos each. He specialized in book binding for the legal profession who used to have their legal reports & things bound in leather to make it look impressive in the bookshelves in their offices. My last one is now full and the shop no longer exists. I can find nothing online either, except cheap & trashy book binding by places like Top copy for cheap student notes. I seriously considered taking my journal totally digital, because most of it is on the laptop anyway, but a real book that you can touch and smell has a warm heart that the computer simply lacks. So, before my time is completely over, I think I can fill up another proper hand made leather bound book, but I'm not sure I can make one totally from scratch and make it look neat as well as stay together forever!

Do you think it would cost much more contacting the guy in the clips ... he seems to be out in Eastern Europe ... could not be "that" expensive getting one from him?

 

EDIT: Ok ... it can get a little pricey!

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseOfStopan

 

His www footprint

https://www.instagram.com/iostopan/

https://www.facebook.com/iostopan

https://www.iostopan.com/